Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Tuesday, November 01, 2005 The Pitch: It's like Gone In Sixty Seconds meets It Happened One Night! Nano's started.The last two mornings I've been up early but spent twenty minutes tweaking emaily type things at the computer. Still, I had approximately an hour to write this morning at the Starbucks, and have started this year's Nano adventure. And I have to say, it's going...slow. Yesterday's warm-up had me cracking the daily word count in forty minutes. Today, after an hour, I've got a hair under 1600 words which means I'll have to keep at it at lunch. In the past, I've really benefitted from an early strong start, getting two or even three days ahead in the first week and that really helps if I crank at least 2,000 words in the first day. But nope, not by now (and who knows? Maybe not by lunch, either...). I also started at the wrong place, I think, although I had to start it somewhere. I didn't want to start in the middle of a concert, and I didn't want to start at an afterparty but I didn't think it was particularly interesting to have the FBI guy talk to the band at the very beginning of it all, so--the tarmac and the jet, as the band leaves Osaka. Also, although smart enough to write down the plot-important tour dates, I didn't write down all the tour dates, so I have no idea where these people were flying to, and if they were going to do a show there or what. In other, actually interesting news, my birthday was a pip, thanks to my wonderful wife who took me to dinner and even drove home with a glass of wine in her, and was incredibly patient when I disappeared to the computer to coordinate all my pre-nano prep and emailery. I'm hoping the month won't be too much of a pain in the ass for her; she's had to put up with three other ones with me, so I hope she doesn't mind it too much by now. Hey, there's some work! Excuse me a second... posted by Jeff Lester | 8:30 AM | |
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